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Sirrt die Sekunde (2008) 
Dur. 13:30  Chamber Orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/1.1/1/2.1.1.1)
Commissioned by Klangforum Wien and Impuls-Graz 2009 with the support of the Catalan Government
Premiere : Klangforum Wien, Enno Poppe, conductor. 14.02.2009. Festival Impuls Graz, Austria.
Editorial Tritó (Barcelona)


Sirrt die Sekunde. Klangforum Wien. Enno Poppe, conductor.

“Moins qu’un souffle, à peine un mouvement de l’air” (2012)
Dur. 20:00 Ensemble (Flute/Piccolo/Bass flute, 2 Perc., Harp, Piano, 2 Vn, Va, Vc, Db.)
Premiere : Klangforum Wien, Enno Poppe, cond. Konzerthaus Wien, Mozart Saal. 1 October 2012. Klangforum Wien, Clement Power, cond. Steirischer Herbst Graz, 6 October 2012.

'Moins qu’un souffle, à peine un mouvement de l’air'. Klangforum Wien, Eva Furrer (fl). C. Power.

abbozzo V (excerpt) for 1/4tone-accordion & string4 (K.Sterev & string4 of the Klangforum Wien)

Until the Light Sets Us Free, String Quartet No.1 (2014)

...nestabilno uzbuđujuće... (2016)
for Great Bass Paetzold Recorder, Harp, Cello, Accordion and Percussion

Studio6 & ensemble proton bern:
Karolina Bäter - Great Bass Paetzold Recorder 
Milana Zarić - Harp
Jan-Filip Ťupa - Cello
Bastian Pfefferli - Percussion
Vladimir Blagojević - Accordion

Piece commissioned by the Collective Studio6 Belgrade 

Live Recording 15 June 2017 at the Kornhausforum Bern, IGNM Bern Concert Series.

...nestabilno uzbuđujuće...

for alto sax, violin, percussion set, piano

Klangforum Wien, Enno Poppe

Simone Movio, " ... come spirali ... " (2008)

Aleph for solo contrabass,
Nikos Tsoukalas - Contrabass
Commissioned by the Onassis Cultural Foundation

Aleph for solo contrabass

Performed in EARTH#SKY#SPACE festival in 22/06/18, Hannover.
Conducted by Andreas Felber. Vocalensemble der HMTMH.

Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

Fall Leaves Fall, for SSAA solo voices (2018)

Performed by Ensemble Suono Giallo
Flute: Andrea Biagini
Saxophone: Michele Bianchini
Percussion: Laura Mancini
Piano: Simone Nocchi

Commissioned by Ensemble Suono Giallo and IlSuono Contemporary Music Week

Live recorded at Teatro degli Illuminati, Città di Castello (Italy).

Invocazione all'ignoto (2018)| bass flute, baritone saxophone, percussion and piano

Music for vocal ensemble of five voices.

Johanna Zimmer: High Soprano
Truike van der Poel: Mezzo-Soprano
Martin Nagy: Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena: Baritone
Andreas Fischer: Bass

Written for Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart.
Performed at LAC, Lugano, Switzerland on 29.07.2018 during Ticino Musica Festival.

Huge thanks to Oscar Bianchi, Bernhard Gander and the members of Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart!

-aphon

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain
Conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live on June 14th 2019 at Cité de la Musique, Paris

Le lieu et la formule (2019) for large ensemble

Popcorn

Commissioned by Klangforum Wien, award for Impuls International Composition Competition 2011.
Premiered at impuls . International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music 2013, Graz / Austria, by Klangforum Wien and Enno Poppe, conductor.

Eon, for ensemble (2012)

"Unending are the Mazes it Engenders" for counter tenor and tenor recorder. Commissioned by UMSn'JIP (Xavier Hagen - counter tenor, Ulrike Mayer Spohn - recorders). 

Performance at a concert of the Contemporary Music Lab (Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Solon Michailidis Hall, 23 Feb 2013.  

The work is a maze of utterances of an uncanny, palpitating sound, which unravels in winding paths, with interconnected twists and turns, through algorithmic mutations and reformulations, continuously circling back to itself by creating and not resolving the dialectics that underly its construction. Its mazing construction lacks of an entrance, a center, and possibility of escape; it is a maze without a monster and a death-defying hero . . . The title is a quotation of a verse from the poem Everness by the Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Louis Borges:

And everything is part of that diverse 
Crystal of memory, the universe; 
Unending are the mazes it engenders

You can get the score at http://www.babelscores.com/en/catalog/vocal-music/solo-voice-and-accompaniment/unending-are-the-mazes-it-engenders

Unending are the Mazes it Engenders

"...anD..." for Viola Sola. Commissioned by Dimitrios Polisoidis, violist (Klangforum Vienna)

Performed Jan 30, 2013. Minoritensaal Graz, Austria.

“... anD ... “ is a challenging, unquenchablly intricate recital piece that allows the performer to display his/her technical prowess. This sense of bravura is unequivocally inspired by Dimitrios Polisoidis’s dazzling virtuosic skill, to whom the work is heartly dedicated. 

The surface of the work, with its prevalent rhythm driven, capriciously pulsating, microtonally detuned, spiccato articulated riffs and runs interwoven with layers of percussive sounds (col legno battuto, finger tappings, pizzicati) or natural harmonics in staccato, is destortedly reminiscent of the 19th century salon music. Sudden offbeat accents and metrical shifts keep an intense energy plane until the end. 

Virtuosic pyrotechnics aside, however, the inner workings of the piece below the surface take on a cerebral as well as organic, self-referential approach. The composition belongs to a series of works written over the past few years that explore a special interlacing technique: short and trite musical objects (two brief series of notes, in this case) are braided in labyrithoid fashion, constantly revealing different perspectives of the material within the development of the musical discourse. 

The pitch structures of the work have been obtained by using algorithmic routines in Super Collider. The routines have been implemented in the frame of the research project Algorithmic Composition in the Context of New Music (2009-10), which took place at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austria.

You can get the score at http://www.babelscores.com/en/catalog/instrumental-music/solo-instrument/and


"...anD…" for viola

Papageorgiou’s music has and always has had a certain predilection towards various forms of similarity and structural reiteration. In such a context, structural redundancy and parsimony stand at the epicenter of his work, as recurrences of patterns that share the same underlying structure unfold in time, elaborating centripetally on the same structural complex or similar structural features, again and again, creating, maintaining and exalting one or various states from a single or from a variety of perspectives.
He has appeared in festivals, conferences, and concerts in most European countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus), in Russia, Serbia, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and several States of the U.S.A. (NY, CA, IL, FL, OH, IA, OK, NV, etc). Most notably his music has been performed at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Unerhörte Musik (Germany), Klangforum Concert Series, Konzerthaus Wien; Musik Protokol, Graz; Klangspuren, Schwaz; Tage Neuer Musik, Graz; 4020.Mehr als Musik, Linz (Austria),  Avignon Festival (France), NUNC4, Chicago; Grains of Sound, San Francisco; Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival; Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, University of North Georgia (U.S.A.), TUUDEN MUSIIKIN LOKAKUU Festival (Finland); Dialog, Gare du Nord – Bahnhof für Neue Musik, Basel; Forum Wallis Contemporary Music Festival  (Switzerland), Diffrazioni Florence Multimedia Festival; Il Suono Music Week (Italy);  ME_MMIX, Festival de Música Electrónica, Mallorca (Spain), ICMC|SMC International Computer Music Conference, Athens; Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera; Onassis Stegi, Athens; Off Borders, Thessaloniki; Freiraum Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), Pharos Arts Foundation 3rd International Contemporary Music Festival (Cyprus), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Iran),  28th International Review of Composers, Belgrade (Serbia), inner sOUNDscapes (Oklahoma, USA), etc. He has collaborated with ensembles such as Arditti String Quartet (UK); Klangforum Wien, Reconsil, Zeitfluss, Airborne Extended, Studio Dan, Trio ArtResonanz, Pro Arte Chor (Austria); Proxima Centauri (France); Ensemble Il Suono Giallo (Italy); Interface (Germany); Ensemble Et Cetera, CNM Ensemble Iowa, BGSU New Music Ensemble, Neophonia, University of Nevada New Music Ensemble (USA); Oerknal (Netherlands); UMS & JIP (Switzerland); Ensemble Assonance (Armenia); Thessaloniki National Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Athens, dissonart, Trio IAMA, duo Goliardi (Greece).
In December 2016 he served as visiting composer at the University of Iowa School of Music and the University of Nevada at Reno; in April 2017 he was visiting composer at the University of Music, Drama and Media at Hanover, and in June 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 as a faculty member at the Delian Academy for New Music, an international summer academy for composers, which is curated under the auspices of Georges Aperghis. Since 2017 he holds composition master classes in Tehran, Iran.
He is one of the artistic co-directors of outHEAR  New Music Week. He is also an artistic advisor and a member of the scheduling committee of the Tehran International Electronic Music Festival. 
Currently an associate professor of composition, he was appointed at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2007.

25 musicians from 13 countries are constantly exploring new horizons of artistic creativity together with the most eminent composers of our time. 

Open-minded, virtuosic in performance and aurally perceptive, Klangforum Wien – one of the internationally most renowned ensembles for contemporary music – devotes itself to the artistic interpretation and expansion of experiential space.

A performance of Klangforum Wien is an event in the best sense of the word; it offers a sensual experience, immediate and inescapable; the novelty in its music speaks, acts and beguiles.

Ever since it was founded by Beat Furrer in 1985, the ensemble – which, over the years, has received a great number of awards and distinctions – has written music history:
It has presented around 600 world premieres, it boasts an extensive discography of more than 90 releases, appearing at the most prestigious concert halls, opera venues and at major music festivals.

Klangforum Wien has its own annual concert series at the Wiener Konzerthaus. Since 2009, the musicians have been sharing their comprehensive mastery of playing techniques and forms of expression with a new generation of artists in the context of their collective professorship at the University of Music, Graz.

The repertoire choice and the ensemble’s intense understanding of the compositions contribute to diversity, and are matched by the most excellent and joyful execution of the music.

"...anD…" for viola

Dimitri Papageorgiou

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